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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by matthewmacleod on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:27AM (#13550318)
You just did exactly the same thing, so chill out.

There's little evidence that labour laws cause unemployment. This meta-analysis (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2705499) points out that minimum wage laws have little to no effect. Wider analyses (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2014....) also seem to conclude that labour rights have little effect ton employment rates.

Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by fiatjaf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:10AM (#13550556)
I understand that you may think I did the same thing exactly, but the point is that my words have meaning, they are not proved in my comment, but "unemployment" has a clear and distinct meaning while "economic inequality" doesn't.
Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by celticninja on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:03AM (#13551462)
Not only are they unsupported in your comment but mathewmcleod has proved them wrong with supporting evidence. My comment was to show that your statement without proof was pointless, I could say the opposite in the same way but it makes neither true. Mathewmcleod disproved your statement with attribution, feel free to do the same mine.
Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by fiatjaf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:29PM (#13555490)
Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by celticninja on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:55PM (#13556256)
Is that a no I won't support my claims?
Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by fiatjaf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:21PM (#13556825)
If "support" means statistics, then no, there is no valid support. All I can offer is logic. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_revenue_productivity_...

Is this (https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_principles-of-economics-...) hard to understand?

Or maybe you want something more rigorous: https://mises.org/library/theory-idle-resources-0

Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by fiatjaf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:09AM (#13550548)
As if economic arguments could be proved by statistical analysis of incomplete data.